2014-01-01

Praxiteles

December 29,2013

ReconstructionofthemovementofApollon of PraxitelesandhisVénus of Cnides

Which are
qualities of a statue of Praxiteles?

The first
is the flexibility. Thus known as the author of Amours,
in connection with Aphrodite de Cnide.
“The talent of the artist, he says, is so powerful whom the marble naturally so
hard and so stiff is softened to train each one of its members”. (Jackie Pigeaud)